[The Romanovs 02] • Catherine the Great by Massie, Robert K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Maps Part I: A German Princess

1: Sophia’s Childhood 2: Summoned to Russia 3: Frederick II and the Journey to Russia 4: Empress Elizabeth 5: The Making of a Grand Duke 6: Meeting Elizabeth and Peter 7: Pneumonia 8: Intercepted Letters 9: Conversion and Betrothal 10: A Pilgrimage to Kiev and Transvestite Balls 11: Smallpox 12: Marriage 13: Johanna Goes Home

Part II: A Painful Marriage

14: The Zhukova Affair 15: Peepholes 16: A Watchdog 17: “He Was Not a King” 18: In the Bedroom 19: A House Collapses 20: Summer Pleasures 21: Dismissals at Court 22: Moscow and the Country 23: Choglokov Makes an Enemy and Peter Survives a Plot 24: A Bath Before Easter and a Coachman’s Whip 25: Oysters and an Actor 26: Reading, Dancing, and a Betrayal

Part III: Seduction: Motherhood, and Confrontation

27: Saltykov 28: The Birth of the Heir 29: Retaliation 30: The English Ambassador 31: A Diplomatic Earthquake 32: Poniatowski 33: A Dead Rat, an Absent Lover, and a Risky Proposal 34: Catherine Challenges Brockdorff; She Gives a Party 35: Apraksin’s Retreat 36: Catherine’s Daughter 37: The Fall of Bestuzhev 38: A Gamble 39: Confrontation 40: A Ménage à Quatre

Photo Insert Part IV: “The Time Has Come!”

41: Panin, Orlov, and Elizabeth’s Death 42: The Brief Reign of Peter III 43: “Dura!” 44: “We Ourselves Know Not What We Did”

Part V: Empress of Russia

45: Coronation 46: The Government and the Church 47: Serfdom 48: “Madame Orlov Could Never Be Empress of Russia” 49: The Death of Ivan VI 50: Catherine and the Enlightenment 51: The Nakaz 52: “All Free Estates of the Realm” 53: “The King We Have Made” 54: The First Partition of Poland and the First Turkish War 55: Doctors, Smallpox, and Plague 56: The Return of “Peter the Third” 57: The Last Days of the “Marquis de Pugachev”

Part VI: Potemkin and Favoritism

58: Vasilchikov 59: Catherine and Potemkin: Passion 60: Potemkin Ascending 61: Catherine and Potemkin: Separation 62: New Relationships 63: Favorites

Part VII: “My Name Is Catherine the Second”

64: Catherine, Paul, and Natalia 65: Paul, Maria, and the Succession 66: Potemkin: Builder and Diplomat 67: Crimean Journey and “Potemkin Villages” 68: The Second Turkish War and the Death of Potemkin 69: Art, Architecture, and the Bronze Horseman 70: “They Are Capable of Hanging Their King from a Lamppost!” 71: Dissent in Russia, Final Partition of Poland 72: Twilight 73: The Death of Catherine the Great

Dedication Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Notes Other Books by This Author About the Author